Puteshestvie diletantov

V syuzhetnoy osnove luchshey, vazhneyshey prozaicheskoy knigi Bulata Shalvovicha Okudzhavy (1924-1997), romana "Puteshestvie diletantov", lezhit real'naya istoriya knyazya Sergeya Vasil'evicha Trubeckogo (v romane on Myatlev) i ego vozlyublennoy Lavinii Zhadimirovskoy (v romane - Ladimirovskaya). No, kak eto vsegda i sluchaetsya v bol'shoy literature, chastnaya istoriya vlyublennyh stanovitsya portretom ogromnoy imperii, slepkom celoy epohi. I delo vovse ne v dokumental'no podtverzhdennom fabul'nom anturazhe i dostovernyh detalyah byta (hotya Okudzhava i v etom tochen tak, budto on sam zhil v opisannyh im 1845-1855 godah). Delo v myslyah, nastroeniyah, dushevnom sostoyanii geroev, pytayuschihsya ischeznut' iz etogo vremeni, skryt'sya ot etih monstrov, spryatat'sya ot svoih muchiteley-presledovateley na okrainah, "byt' mozhet, za stenoy Kavkaza..." ili v nepokornoy Pol'she.